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Joshua Sharples documented his 48-day journey through Pennsylvania and New York in his journal titled “Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent”. Sharples and his fellow Quakers Jacob Lindley, James Wilson, Oliver Paxton, and James Langstaff left on October 12, 1797 and returned to Chester County on December 1, 1797. They spend most of their trip meeting with other Quakers and former Friends, but did pass through a Seneca village on Tonawanda Creek.
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Journal of John Peirce, Quaker of Darby, Pennsylvania. John Peirce documented his 61-day journey through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York in his journal titled “Notes, On a Visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796”. Peirce and his fellow Friends James Cooper, Joseph Sansom, Isaiah Rowland, Enoch Walker, and Henry Simmons left on May 30, 1796 for the Oneida reservation. Their goal was to meet with various Native American groups and establish agricultural programs. After passing through New Jersey and up the Hudson River to Schenectady, they followed the Mohawk River to the Stockbridge, Brotherton, Tuscarora and Oneida Villages. After meeting with the members of the various groups at the Oneida reservation, the party made their way further west to the Onondaga and Cayuga settlements. Their journey home took them through central New York and Pennsylvania through Bath and Painted Post, New York as well as Muncy, Catawissa, and Reading Pennsylvania. Peirce arrived home in Darby, Pennsylvania, on July 29, 1796.
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James Cooper documented his 62-day journey through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York in his journal titled “Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796”. Cooper and his fellow Friends John Peirce, Joseph Sansom, Isaiah Rowland, Enoch Walker, and Henry Simmons left on May 30, 1797 for the Oneida reservation. Their goal was to meet with various Native American groups and establish agricultural programs. After passing through New Jersey and up the Hudson River to Schenectady, they followed the Mohawk River to the Stockbridge, Brothertown, Tuscarora and Oneida Villages. After meeting with the members of the various groups at the Oneida reservation, the party made their way further west to the Onondagas and Cayuga settlements. Their journey home took them through central New York and Pennsylvania through Bath and Painted Post, New York as well as Muncy, Catawissa, and Reading Pennsylvania. Cooper arrived home in Woodbury, New Jersey, on July 30, 1796.
